WASHINGTON – Each Republican member of Florida’s congressional delegation voted to move President Donald Trump’s “One Large Stunning Invoice Act,” which narrowly cleared the Home of Representatives Thursday by a vote of 218-214.
The sweeping laws, championed by Florida Republicans because the “largest tax reduce for working-and-middle-class households in historical past,” now heads to the president’s desk, fulfilling a key marketing campaign promise.
Florida lawmakers, together with Home Methods and Means Committee Vice Chairman Rep. Vern Buchanan, had actively lobbied for the invoice’s passage, asserting it was essential for financial progress and nationwide safety.
Buchanan issued the next assertion:
“In the present day is a good day for American households, staff, seniors, kids, servicemembers and small companies. I’m proud to have helped lead efforts on the Home Methods and Means Committee to ship the biggest tax reduce in U.S. historical past, make the 2017 Tax Cuts and Jobs Act everlasting, improve the kid tax credit score, present aid to seniors residing on fastened incomes and strengthen Medicaid for individuals who want care most.
“Our invoice additionally consists of my longtime priorities of easing the burden of constructing and proudly owning a house, ending taxes on ideas and making the small enterprise deduction everlasting for over 30 million job creators. The One Large, Stunning Invoice Act is the definition of guarantees made and guarantees stored.”
The invoice goals to make everlasting decrease tax charges and a doubled normal deduction, together with an elevated and everlasting youngster tax credit score, which proponents say will stop a $1,700 tax improve for the typical household.
Projections from the Florida delegation advised Floridians might see a long-run wage improve between $5,800 and $11,000, and a typical household with two kids might expertise a take-home pay improve of $7,500 to $12,700.
“Tax cuts, border safety, power independence…the One Large Stunning Invoice has all of it for Northeast Florida! This can be a complete answer for a stronger future,” Rep. Aaron Bean mentioned.
Further provisions embrace tax incentives for paid go away and childcare, financial savings accounts for newborns, and elevated entry to the adoption tax credit score. For Florida’s important tourism sector, the invoice proposes eliminating federal taxes on ideas and additional time pay for low- and medium-wage staff.
Congresswoman Laurel Lee issued the next assertion:
“This laws offers Florida households actual aid—defending their paychecks, reducing their tax burden, and increasing alternative. It makes the Trump tax cuts everlasting, ends unfair taxes on ideas and additional time, and preserves important advantages just like the youngster tax credit score. It additionally strengthens vital packages like Medicaid and Social Safety to make sure they work higher and last more. As well as, it empowers regulation enforcement to implement our immigration legal guidelines and restore order on the southern border.
“At its core, the One Large Stunning Invoice stands with the hardworking individuals who make our nation robust—American households, small companies, and the employees who’re the muse of Florida’s financial system and our nation’s future.”
Seniors are additionally focused for aid, with an “extra bonus of a number of thousand {dollars}” to the usual deduction for low- and middle-income seniors, meant to assist handle bills like medicine and housing for Florida’s greater than 5 million seniors.
The laws additionally helps Florida’s 3 million small companies by renewing 100% fast expensing, which permits homeowners to reinvest of their operations, and makes the small enterprise deduction everlasting.
Simply solid my vote to assist @realDonaldTrump’s One Large Stunning Invoice.
Cuts taxes.
No tax on ideas.
Secures the border.
Cuts fraud waste and abuse.
Let’s Make America Nice Once more.
🇺🇸 🇺🇸 🇺🇸
— Jimmy Patronis (@JimmyPatronis) July 3, 2025
Rep. Carlos Gimenez known as the passage of the invoice a “main win for hardworking American households.”
🚨 Our One Large Stunning Invoice has PASSED and is on its method to President Trump’s desk!
This can be a main win for hardworking American households: decrease taxes, stronger borders, safer streets, and a brighter future for our youngsters.
PROMISES MADE, PROMISES KEPT. 🇺🇸
— Rep. Carlos A. Gimenez (@RepCarlos) July 3, 2025
Past financial measures, the “One Large Stunning Invoice” allocates billions in new funding for the Division of Homeland Safety, Immigration and Customs Enforcement, and the U.S. Coast Guard to expedite the removing of felony unlawful aliens.
This consists of hiring new ICE officers, Border Patrol brokers, and immigration judges. Florida lawmakers cited a joint operation in April 2025 in Florida that arrested 1,120 felony unlawful aliens, together with gang members, as proof of the pressing want for elevated immigration assets.
The invoice additionally addresses Medicaid, looking for to guard and strengthen it for Americans by rooting out waste, fraud and abuse and implementing “commonsense work necessities,” a transfer that critics contend might result in tens of millions dropping well being protection.
Florida Republicans argue that work necessities would improve labor participation whereas reserving Medicaid for the aged, pregnant girls, disabled Individuals, and needy kids.
The passage of the invoice got here after days of intense negotiations and procedural maneuvers in each the Home and Senate, the place it cleared on a 51-50 vote with Vice President J.D. Vance casting the tie-breaking vote earlier within the week.
Democrats uniformly opposed the laws.
